Mr. Reagan's order flatly states that "no person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination".
Mr. Gilani has flatly refused the order, citing Mr. Zardari's immunity from prosecution, drawing the ire of senior judges who viewed his stance as a brazen challenge to their authority.
"How hard is it to take a picture and slap a headline on it?" Then she flatly denied having ordered so many covers.
He flatly refused to take orders from the university's athletic director, his nominal superior.
Zuckerberg, already showing signs of the single-minded focus that was to become his trademark, flatly turned them down in order to concentrate on his studies at Harvard.
Christie flatly denied any role in planning or ordering the lane closures.
A dozen states have filed suit to halt the new greenhouse gas rules, with one, Texas, flatly refusing to comply with any new orders from Washington.
But they flatly rejected claims he was acting on orders from the top or that he was a "cog in the machine" who could not get out.
He explained: "The state flatly stonewalled the lower courts by defying orders to produce information, and then was rewarded at the Supreme Court by winning its case on the basis that the defendant had not put forward enough evidence.
Sherlock wrote that the group had "flatly refused" to comply with two discovery orders for documents.
